PS3 F#ck*n died!!!

**altimit** · 04-22-2008,04:22 AM

Originally Posted by gamecubesuxs

Sorry posted this to vent out my frustrations. I rercently bought a 60gb PS3 from Best Buy 2 weeks ago and while play Call of Duty 3 today the system powered completly off and now no power runs through it (no leds) and Ive pretty much did everything to narrow it down to a fuse on the mobo or the powersupply gave out. On top of that the game ( a rental ) is still stuck in the drive with no way to get it out.

I'd like to chime in and say this happened to me for the first time when playing a PS2 game. It happened about a week ago, and was quite scary. Being already out of warranty i stripped the system down and none of the 4 fuses in the Power Supply were blown. I don't know if the Power Supply just had to cool down, or maybe something tripped the internal circuit breaker (like how when you short a molex connector in your PC, you have to unplug the PSU for 3-5 min before it'll work again), but when I put the PS3 back together it powered up fine, and has been working ever since.

So, in short, if this happens to you (it cuts out with no standby led), unplug all the cables from it for 5-10 minutes then plug it back in, it just may well save you some time and frustration.

**general.chaos** · 04-28-2008,03:31 PM

Originally Posted by altimit

I'd like to chime in and say this happened to me for the first time when playing a PS2 game. It happened about a week ago, and was quite scary. Being already out of warranty i stripped the system down and none of the 4 fuses in the Power Supply were blown. I don't know if the Power Supply just had to cool down, or maybe something tripped the internal circuit breaker (like how when you short a molex connector in your PC, you have to unplug the PSU for 3-5 min before it'll work again), but when I put the PS3 back together it powered up fine, and has been working ever since.

So, in short, if this happens to you (it cuts out with no standby led), unplug all the cables from it for 5-10 minutes then plug it back in, it just may well save you some time and frustration.

Sounds like you just had an overheating issue.

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